Supernatural: New Showrunner for Season 8

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Being Human vet returns to the series to step in for the departing Sera Gamble.

By Eric Goldman

Things are changing behind the scenes of Supernatural once again. Deadline reports that Sera Gamble, who'd been serving as co-showrunner on the series for the past two years, is stepping down and will be replaced by Jeremy Carver.

Carver will run the series with Gamble's current co-showrunner, Robert Singer (yes, the inspiration for Supernatural character Bobby Singer's name) beginning next season. Carver had been co-showrunning the Syfy version of Being Human with his wife, Anna Fricke, but will depart that series for Supernatural – though he'll retain an executive producer credit on Being Human. This will mark Carver's return to Supernatural - he wrote for the series for several years before leaving for Being Human.

Gamble will be leaving Supernatural to focus on developing new series. She'd been with the show since the beginning as a writer, moving into the showrunner position after series creator, Eric Kripke stepped down from that position after Season 5.

Supernatural was already assumed to be coming back for another season and this new change behind the scenes, as work is winding down on Season 7, pretty much cements it will be returning for Season 8 - even though CW still has yet to make its renewal official.